LaBeouf was on hand to promote the project on Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, sporting hair similar to McEnroe’s while he discussed his latest film, Cannes selection American Honey, about a traveling magazine sales crew.

“Jake is me. So is McEnroe. That’s it, man,” the actor said to USA Today at the event referring to how he relates to McEnroe and his American Honey character Jake.

LaBeouf admitted that he doesn’t play tennis but that his backhand “is getting there.”

Production on Borg/McEnroe begins this fall with a planned 2017 release date.